Improvement in medicated soaps



UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

E. ALLEN ADAMS, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN MEDICATED SOAPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 210,889, dated December 17, 1878; application filed November 18, 1878.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, E. ALLEN ADAMS, of IVashington, in the county of Washington and District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Medicated Soaps; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make anduse the same.

The nature of my invention consists in the combination, with an olive-oil soap, of thymol, boracic acid, salicylic acid, and the sulpbocarhola-te of sodium, to produce a remedy for cutaneous and other diseases, it having been foundvaluableinscarlatina,measles,small-pox, nettle-rash, diphtheria, and also as an agent to remove blotches, pimples, and discolorations of the skin. This soap has been found a speeitio for many of the minor skin diseases and a valuable auxiliary to general treatment in those of a more intractable character. It is also valuable as an adjunct in obstetrical practice, and in treatment of fevers, as well as a cleanser and deodorizer for wounds, in which it promotes granulation and facilitates healing by the first intention to a surprising degree.

To compound this medicated soap, I use as a base a soap made from pure olive-oil, with soda, in the proportions of one thousand and ninety-five grains of the basis soap with five grains of thymol, one scruple of salicylic acid, one scruple of boracic acid, and one dram of the sulpho-carbolatc of sodium. These ingredients are mixed with the soap during the crutching process and before the oliveoil soap has become cold. This composition may be taried in its proportions; but these given are considered to be the best.

I am aware that boracic acid, thymol, and salicylic acid have each separately been added to soap; but such separate additions I do not claim.

hat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The herein-described composition of matter, v

consisting of olive-oil soap, thylnol, boracic and salicylic acids, and the sulpho-carbolate of sodium.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

E. ALLEN ADAMS.

Witnesses:

D. CARR-IGAN, EDGAR VAN HORN. 

